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...Johnson & Johnson subsidiary says it will plead guilty tomorrow to obstructing a federal probe of how it marketed Retin-A, an acne drug commonly prescribed as a wrinkle remover. The firm, Ortho Pharmaceuticals of Raritan, N.J., agreed to pay $7.5 million in fines and dismiss three senior employees who shredded documents sought by investigators. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched its investigation in 1991, concerned that Ortho had been promoting Retin-A for a non-approved use as a wrinkle cream...
While scientists around the globe are making rapid progress deciphering the dance of hormones that makes pregnancy possible -- work that raises new strategies for blocking conception -- the major American pharmaceutical companies have all but abandoned the field. Of the nine doing research in contraceptives 20 years ago, only one (Ortho Pharmaceutical) is still active. The others have been scared off by the fear of costly lawsuits like the one that drove the maker of the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine device, into bankruptcy, and by public controversy such as that surrounding RU-486, the French "abortion pill...
...have shown that Chiron's test is highly reliable. It can now help eliminate the virus from the blood supply. The inexpensive test (about $2 per blood sample) is expected to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration this year and marketed early in 1990 by Chiron and Ortho Diagnostics Systems, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Said Dr. S. Gerald Sandler, medical director for blood services of the American Red Cross: "This is a very significant scientific achievement that virtually closes the chapter on post-transfusion hepatitis...
Intrigued by Kligman's early results, the drug's manufacturer, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. of Raritan, N.J., began sponsoring clinical trials around the country. One method used to assess the drug: researchers make molds of facial skin with dental modeling plastic, then scrutinize the impressions with an imaging analyzer of the kind used by NASA to examine the moon's surface. The company claims that results so far have been positive and plans to submit its findings next year to the Food and Drug Administration. Although it is already approved for treating acne, Retin-A cannot be promoted as an anti...
...similar sentiment may soon apply to the manufacturers of spermicides. Earlier this year, a jury awarded $4.7 million in damages to a woman who claimed that her child's birth defects resulted from her use of Ortho-Gynol jelly. Most scientists have found the product safe, and the company, which is appealing, insists it has no plans to remove its foams and gels from the market. But, says Ortho's James Murray, "if the costs of litigation begin to exceed earnings, we couldn't very well continue...